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Stories and reviews about architecture, the people who shape it, and the tools and ideas behind the places we live.
Unité d'Habitation Berlin. Gunnar Klack, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Published buildings, pinned where they stand. Open the map to filter by city, material, experience, and style.
Featured buildings
Each entry carries the architect, the year of completion, the materials and the context that makes the building worth the detour.
- 8 House - BIG, 2010, A neighbourhood you can bike to the roof of
- Champalimaud Centre - Charles Correa, 2010, A threshold between science and the sea
- MAAT - Amanda Levete (AL_A), 2016, A wave you can walk over
- Royal Danish Opera - Henning Larsen, 2005, A floating roof on the Copenhagen harbour
- Unité d'Habitation Berlin - Le Corbusier, 1958, Berlin, For the béton brut origin
The directory
Find architects credited on published buildings. Interior designers, product manufacturers, designers, tools, and marketing agencies will be listed when there are records to show.
- BIG - Architect
- Werner Düttmann - Architect
- Georg Heinrichs, Wolf Bertelsmann, Gerhard Krebs, Klaus Detlev Krebs - Architect
- Louis Sullivan / Lyndon P. Smith - Architect
- Ralf Schüler, Ursulina Schüler-Witte - Architect
- Herzog & de Meuron - Architect
- Antoni Gaudí - Architect
- OMA / Rem Koolhaas - Architect
- Luis Barragán - Architect
- Charles Correa - Architect
- Věra Machoninová, Vladimír Machonin, Klaus Pätzmann - Architect
- Klaus Kirsten - Architect
- Mortimer C. Merritt - Architect
- Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel - Architect
- Axel Schultes, Charlotte Frank - Architect
- Amanda Levete (AL_A) - Architect
- Stephen Decatur Hatch - Architect
- Hans Schädel, Friedrich Ebert - Architect
- Gerd Hänska, Magdalena Hänska, with Kurt Schmersow - Architect
- EMBT - Architect
- FR-EE / Fernando Romero - Architect
- Wolfgang Jokisch, Johannes Uhl - Architect
- Jürgen Sawade, Dieter Frowein, Dietmar Grötzebach, Günter Plessow - Architect
- Hermann Fehling, Daniel Gogel, Peter Pfankuch - Architect
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News and research
Essays, criticism, interviews and reportage.
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Cities we cover
City guides pair an essay on the place with the buildings worth walking to. We currently cover 3 cities.
- Berlin - Germany, Where History Meets Contemporary Design
- New York - USA, The city that nevers sleeps
- Vienna - Austria
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About Siana Architecture
We believe the most interesting building in any city is rarely the most famous one, and that the best way to understand a place is to walk it slowly, with someone pointing. No ads, no clutter, no infinite scroll. More about what we do.